Living Relationally
Do you need help because your organization is at a decision-making standoff, mediating between emotionally charged, passive, and reluctant leaders?
Sara partners with you to help you get unstuck and back on track.
The 5 Losing Strategies
Do any of these common issues sound familiar?
- Being Right: People can get stuck thinking that their way is the best and only way to get things done or speak, roll their eyes, belittle, and act in contemptuous ways.
- Controlling: People try to make things better by telling others what they know and that it can help when it, unfortunately, instead makes things worse.
- People get mad and want to get even, and they may not even realize that is what they are doing - they are retaliating.
- Unbridled self-expression - examples of being unbridled are when people exaggerate, minimize, talk too much, or gossip.
- Withdrawal can occur when people give up because they don't think they are being heard, what they say will make a difference, or if they are upset because things are not going their way.
The 5 Winning Strategies
We will partner in peeling back the layers of the stories people make up and take small steps into practicing ways to communicate that can help everyone feel equal, on the same page, and in the game:
- The first step is gaining clarity about what you want.
- Talking in such a way to make things better instead of worse.
- Listen with curiosity instead of complaining or criticizing.
- Respond with warmth and give what you can.
- Consider what you can be thankful for instead of being discontent, depressed, or upset with what you don't have.
